Born in 1992 from an entrepreneurial idea of President Sergio Bommarito, it operates in the Credit Management sector
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Fire Group SpA
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Representation of significant shareholdings
Shareholders
Sergio
Bommarito
Alberto
Bommarito
Antonio
Bommarito
Marco
Bommarito
Business Operations
Sales and Business Development
Group Chairman & CEO
Sales and Business Development
Management
Sergio
Bommarito
Group Chairman & CEO
Subsidiaries' CEOs
Group Management
Dario
Amata
Antonio
Bommarito
Sergio
Bommarito
Chief Financial Officer
Head of Sales & Marketing
Chief Executive Officer Fire S.p.A
Giuseppe
Motta
Piero
Pullia
Antonino
Bicchieri
Head of HR & Organization
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Executive Officer Fire Credit S.r.l.
Dario
Amata
Veronica
Toscano
Marcello
Grimaldi
Chief Executive Officer Creset S.p.A.
Head of Risk & Compliance
Head of Legal &
General Counsel
Vincenzo
Russo
Antonino
Bicchieri
Head of Internal Audit
Chief Procurement Officer
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Sonia
Di Nuzzo
Corporate Communication & Sustainability Leader
Our story
Fire is founded by Sergio Bommarito, a professional coming from the international consumer finance sector, and it soon becomes a reference player in credit management.
1992
Fire launches its credit management software, Recuper@ and widens its operations with the opening of offices in Catania, Palermo, Naples, Bari and Rome
1993
-2006
Fire strengthens its positioning on the NPL servicing market through the merger with the factoring company SIF S.p.A.
The company obtains its Investigation Licence.
2007
-2009
Fire enhances its Corporate Governance by appointing independent members of the Board of Directors and Claudio Manetti as Fire S.p.A.’s CEO.
Fire Group acquires 60% of Creset, a joint venture with Credito Valtellinese, a company operating in the tax management sector.
2010
-2015
Fitch Ratings assigns and subsequently confirms the ratings ABSS2+ and RSS2+ to Fire.
Fire is a founding member of the UNIREC-Consumer Protection Associations’ FORUM and contributes to the drafting of the related Code of Conduct.
The company obtains the ISO27001:2013 certification for the safety of information management.
Alberto Vigorelli is appointed new Group CEO.
A new phase of strategic development is launched, aiming at strengthening the position of the Group on the servicing market.
Fire Group acquires a further 20% of Creset.
2016
-2019
The Group launches its Strategic Plan 2020-2023 and invests in managerialization and digitalization.
2020
Fire obtains two important results:
• Legality rating (with the highest score) the recognition issued by the Competition and Market Authority;
• EcoVadis Corporate Sustainability Rating "Gold" 2021 reflects the company's ethical approach and its acting in a sustainable and socially responsible way
2021
The Group celebrates the 30th anniversary of Fire S.p.A. establishment and the 10th for Fire Credit, the Romanian subsidiary headquartered in Iasi.
Angelo Barbarulo, market-renoknown manager issued from the banking and insurance sector, is appointed Fire S.p.A.'s Chairman.
FITCH confirms the RSS2+ rating with a positive outlook and the ABSS1- rating with stable outlook.
Fire obtains two new certifications: UNI EN ISO 14064-1:2019 Greenhouse effect gas and UNI CEI EN ISO 50001:2018 Energy Management Systems. Two new offices are opened in Rome and Catanzaro.
The Group keeps achieving excellent financial results, with a +8% in terms of revenues. The credit purchase activity is streamlined.
The 2022-2024 Sustainability RoadMap is launched.
Fire wins the “Le Buone Prassi nella Tutela del Credito” prize, in the category “Progetto Virtuoso”, with its “Chatbot” project.
2022
Effe46 is born, a subsidiary of the Group focused on the management of “special situations”, complex debt situations whose management requires a pool of highly specialized skills. 2023 The digitalization process of the customer journey continues, with the release of the first digital receipt.
From the synergy between Fire and a team of legal professionals with many years of experience in credit management, Effe Legal, a Society between Lawyers with a strong technological connotation, is born.
Fire wins 1st prize as the best company in the Collection segment in the 1st European Credit Challenge, organized by Credit Village.
2023
Fire is the only industrial partner of Persefone, the first Contribution Fund (AIF) for small- to medium-sized NPL and UtP loans launched by P&G Fund.
Fitch Ratings upgrades Fire SpA's rating for Residential Special Servicer business to 'RSS1-' and confirms 'ABSS1-' rating for Asset Backed Special Servicer business.
“Fireducation”, the financial education project for Italian primary and secondary schools, starts in Messina, with educational activities aimed at promoting responsible management of personal finances and contributing to raising the literacy level of young people on this topic. The project obtains inclusion among the initiatives of the “November of Financial Education 2024”.
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